HBO is planning on working with Black Swan and Noah director Darren Aronofsky again, even though their previous collaboration didn’t bear much fruit. The two are developing an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy, which Aronofsky might direct.
According to Deadline, which first reported the news, the project is the first under a three-year overall deal the network signed with the filmmaker’s Protozoa Pictures in January.
The MaddAddam books - Oryx and Crake (2003), Year Of The Flood (2009), and MaddAddam (2013) - are set in the mid-21st century, where corporations are more powerful than governments and genetic manipulation is common. Then, there is a Waterless Flood apocalypse and the plot focuses on the characters behind it and whose lives are changed by it.
Brandi-Ann Milbradt will executive produce with Protozoa Pictures president Ari Handel and Aronofsky. The team is currently on the search for writers.
Aronofsky and HBO previously worked together on Hobgoblin, a pilot he signed to direct in 2011. However, as Indiewire points out, that pilot was not picked up by the network.
Aronofsky was nominated for an Oscar for directing Black Swan. His Noah grossed $345 million worldwide for Paramount earlier this year.
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